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Interview with Leadership Legend John Baldoni on Leadership and Organizational Change
KNIGHT’S OF TRANSFORMATION – Organizational Culture and Change Series Leadership is the salient edge between success and failure. If there’s no leadership, an organization will remain in stasis and it’s not going anywhere. The organizational culture is stagnant. Leaders are those that pull others along with them, pull them to the front and push from ... Read More
Organizational Culture & Leadership Comic #2 by Arthur Carmazzi
Modified from Arthur Carmazzi’s Graphic Training Manual Series “The Hero’s Way” How is it that a high performer can become an underperformer in a few months… could this be you? Many of us are not performing at the real potential we have… or at least not in our work environment… Understanding the DC Psychology wisdom found ... Read More
Leadership Journey Begins – 3 Avatars that Lead by Arthur Carmazzi
Which of the 3 Leadership Avatars is in charge? All get results, but only one achieves objectives through leadership By Arthur Carmazzi As leaders, and those on the leadership path… often we look at those around us and see how they react poorly to situations, it is easy to see Jack (the lizard) in others, ... Read More
Organizational Culture – 5 Levels of Corporate Culture Change – Arthur Carmazzi
In this Knights of Transformation video, Arthur Carmazzi will be sharing on Organizational Culture Evolution – The 5 Levels of corporate culture change to be more precise. The idea is that company culture has levels, and each level is a culture evolution. From the bottom of the most dysfunctional organizational culture to the most effective ... Read More
Why Leadership Models don’t work – Arthur Carmazzi
Have you gone through training before? .. how sustainable were the models you learned? In this Knights of Transformation video, Arthur Carmazzi will be sharing on why leadership models don’t work and how to achieve sustainable leadership development. This content is based on 14 years of leadership model research by Arthur Carmazzi and his team… so pay ... Read More
Drug Dealer Whale approach to Leading High Performance – Arthur Carmazzi
Yes really – Leading high performance! In this Knights of Transformation video, Arthur Carmazzi will be sharing with the same leadership psychology used by drug dealers, and whale trainers. Leading High Performance is a factor of motivation and strategies to elicit that motivation. Drug Dealers don’t practice leadership you say? Is there such a thing ... Read More
Are Skills the Foundation for Competency? – Arthur Carmazzi
After watching the Video on how Skills relate to Competency… Read the excerpt below of how SKILLS affect Competency from my latest book: Architects of Extraordinary Team Culture – 5 Secrets Hidden in the Great Pyramids From Arthur Carmazzi‘s Team Leadership Book: Architects of Extraordinary Team Culture – 5 Secrets Hidden in the Great Pyramids ... Read More
Being Extraordinary – What sets you apart?
Arthur Carmazzi in Pune, India NOTE: This video is about being Extraordinary, and the girl in the video has achieved a higher level… BUT I do not condone the exploitation of Children by their parents to earn a living. I am on the street side, and right here, before your eyes, we have a young ... Read More
Leadership and Engagement through interviews by Arthur Carmazzi
In this Leadership and Engagement through interviews post, Arthur Carmazzi interviews Genecia Alluora She has a regular live show on Facebook and a huge following. Her notoriety is the foundation for her financial success. But wait, there’s more! Because of the interviews and sharing she also creates close bonds (as demonstrated when she breaks down and ... Read More
#3 – The Final Barrier to Any type of Success – and How to Overcome it
In this Video Episode of Agents of Change. The final barrier to your success is Vision. In this Video Arthur Carmazzi Explains how your future identity is directly related to your success and failure. The first question is: WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE? Where the majority of your focus is, will determine your end ... Read More
Arthur Carmazzi on Innovation Leadership and Problem Solving from the Ancient City of Cappadocia
The ancient city of Cappadocia is a terrain that is surreal, and it was also home to an ancient civilization that had a problem that was solved by this almost uninhabitable terrain. We often find obstacles to achieving our own goals or KPI’s due to lack of resources. But is their another way? Check out ... Read More
Arthur Carmazzi on Colored Brain Insights to Marketing Success with Colored Brain
In this week’s Agents of change episode, Arthur Carmazzi talks about how his Colored Brain model can support super awesome marketing, in this more Serious video, are explains how customers filter messages based on brain color and how many marketing plans often miss up to 74% of their potential buyers because they are not accounting ... Read More
Big Boys Don’t Cry? Day 4 of DC TTT, Bali
Hello! What do you think: it is good or bad when students cry in the class? Of course NO, if it is because the teacher is torturing them, and in this case they should leave the class immediately. If it is a personal development workshop, motivational program or Directive Communication Psychology Trainer’s Certification – people ... Read More
Why Do We Like Posting Selfies? Human Motivation and Emotional Drive: Lessons from Day 3 of DC TTT, Bali
Hello! Have you ever thought why people like posting selfies? There is a lot of so-called ‘scientifically proven studies’, you might find in the internet, which say that people who post selfies have inclinations to psychopathy and other different kinds of insanity, narcissism and arrogance. What do YOU think? Can you tell, why you post selfies ... Read More
How it Feels Like in This World to be …Blue/Red/Green/Purple Brained?
Hey! Do you know the way your brain processes information? Do you know that there are different types of people with different types of brain processors, which affect the way they perceive the world and communicate with others. According to Directive Communication Psychology, there are 4 brain colors, which identify HOW your brain works. On ... Read More
Agents of Change With Arthur Carmazzi: Chivalry and Guiding Organizational Culture
Hello! It’s school holiday time right now and since I promised to bring my sons to Legoland in Kuala Lumpur a long time ago, here I am, standing in front of this big castle with two brave Knights talking about…Chivalry. Do you know what Chivalry means? It is basically a set of rules or guiding ... Read More
Agents of Change With Arthur Carmazzi: Delayed Gratification and the Lessons from Ramadan at the Palace
Hello! Today’s Agents of Change is filmed at the Palace of Her Highness, Princess Badria Al Mulla in Abu Dhabi. We are breaking the fast with Princess Ade of Nigeria and Prince Fahad, from Abu Dhabi. I am so honored to be invited to such a personal gathering with such awesome and down to earth ... Read More
Agents of Change With Arthur Carmazzi: The Power of Stories for Behavior Change
Hi there! I assume you have been looking forward to our new episode of Agents of Change. Last episode about Hitler got almost 900 shares in less than a week time. I would like to thank you for sharing my posts on your personal social media channels and for your feedback. You are awesome! I hope you will ... Read More
When Did Hitler Go Bad? OR How to Manage Your Destiny
Hello! Yesterday I was talking to my son, Dante about history and villains. And he suddenly asked me this question: ‘Was Hitler bad when he was a child or what made him bad or when did he become bad?’ An interesting question, isn’t it? Just think about it: what really determines the destiny of somebody ... Read More
From Russia with Love
Once again, a victim of the Media, Russia gets a bad rap! The media tends to focus on stereotypes that paint Russia and Russians in a dark light creating bias perspectives that affect global perceptions. And… once again, it’s just more BS. The experience on my trip to Russia as a keynote speaker at the Global ... Read More
Arthur Carmazzi – Review on global CEO leadership
By 2020 there will be nearly 7 times more networked devices than there are people in the world. The digital revolution has given birth to a new generation of consumers who want ever more accessible, portable, flexible and customized products, services and experiences. They expect to move seamlessly – in real time – between the ... Read More
Directive Communication International
This is why people around Asia and the Middle East are Choosing Directive Communication International as their preferred training provider for leadership and organizational change… Here are the links to highlight why DCI is different, more effective and basically BETTER in leadership development and the resulting organizational culture change that happens from that leadership: Applications ... Read More
Arthur Carmazzi – Foundations for Blame
Foundations for Blame come from our intrinsic need for significance; our ego is constantly looking for reasons why we are not wrong, why the decisions we make were ok… if it wasn’t for… “X”. Blame is a response to our fear of not being good enough. Blame circumstances, blame others, the bottom line is Blame, ... Read More
Arthur Carmazzi – New Leadership Book Part 4
Continued from Part 3 TepTep sighed, if he is truly to fulfil his dream to become the type of leader who can build long lasting institutions (or pyramids), his journey must extend far beyond what he has learned and even what he believes to be true. He must break old habits and be prepared to accept that his reality may need to be redefined....Arthur Carmazzi – New Leadership Book Part 3
Please continue to help me write my new book, this is Part 3. You are welcome to look at and contribute to the previous posts. And special thanks to Earl Wallace, who I did not have an opportunity to thank for his brilliant contribution in Part 2 Also, please see the web pages Organizational Culture Change at: http://directivecommunication.com/corporate_culture_organisational_development.phpArthur Carmazzi – New Leadership Book Part 2
Continued from Part 1 - “The Great Pharaoh” was always striving for bigger and better Pyramids, BUT, there were definitely some quality issues. So when TepTep got his first position as Quarry Manager for the construction blocks division, he found the real world issues were very different than what he learned in school. Although the employees did the job, he found the division’s effectiveness was sadly lacking. People were not putting in a “full” effort, politics were being played, people were blaming each other for mistakes and difficulties, and there was little or no cooperation across divisions… he even heard many employees say they felt like they were being treated like slaves. Wow, he didn’t have to go to school to know that this wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. At first he thought it was because they were only paid about 3 baskets of grain a week (minimum wage for skilled labour), but this idea was about to change, and the course of leadership (and pyramid building) would never be the same again. Picture of Egyptian workers being lazy and complaining in a quarry TepTep thought he would never be able to be a great leader here. He didn’t want to be held back by this kind of dysfunctional environment so he went Great Pharaoh’s senior management and asked to be re-assigned. “After all”, he thought, “A leader couldn’t be great with people who weren’t eager to do what he said ”. “Could they?” The senior managers all sat around a big table and listened to him complain, when he was finished, they talked and whispered and then said: “sure, why not, your dad was a real fun guy at the alligator wrestling matches, so go ahead, we will put you in charge of pyramid building” TepTep said “thank you” and thought “Wow, now I can work with people who have greater skill and knowledge, and they even get better pay. These people are more like me, so they will be easier to lead.” TepTep was excited. He wanted to understand more about his job so he decided to visit some of the latest developments. His first stop was the recently finished project in Meidum to see the pyramid built for Pharaoh Seneferu only a few years before. When he arrived, he saw the blocks were already starting to crumble and the structure wasn’t very sturdy. “This sucks!” he thought, this was not the quality he wanted to create. Rendering of pyramid at Meidum He looked at the structure again. While each of the individual stones was carved skilfully, each was just laid as an individual block, with one piled on top of another. With minor earthquakes and strong weather conditions the whole complex was already falling apart. And of course no one was taking responsibility for it and everyone was blaming everyone else. People were talking behind others back because one stone carver would think his carving is better than the other guys, or one would think he was caring more Weight than the rest. But the quality of the overall work was still not what it could be. He felt that all the theory he had learned from ISIS school of Management was not applicable in the real world, when the “human element” was introduced. But Why? Why would people who have the skill, have the experience, and have reasonable pay, not really put in the extra effort to build something Great? Why were they working as individuals instead as a team with a common vision? TepTep was discouraged and confused. Suddenly a hawk cried overhead, and as TepTep looked up, he saw a sign. Picture of a sign carried by a hawk that says “The Great Bubu, Magic Solutions to your problems” “That’s it! That’s how I can be a great leader and a great builder of Pyramids, I will get the magic solution.”
Arthur Carmazzi – New Leadership Book Part 1
Daft #1 Arthur Carmazzi new book preview Leadership Lessons from the Great Pyramids Cultivating masses of motivated people to build Lasting organizations ————————————————————————————————- Evidence uncovered by Faunal experts Redding and Lehner prove it… “It was not the slaves that built the pyramids. It was gangs of motivated, dedicated and well organized individuals who had a purpose…” ... Read MoreArthur Carmazzi – Help me Write my New Book
With the great success of "Lessons from the Monkey King – Leading Change to Create Gorilla Sized Results”, I was requested to write 2 more books of the same style in the series – I’m late!
The second book is “Team Leadership Lessons from the Great Pyramids – Nurturing Highly Motivated Teams to Do the Impossible”... and it’s not finished... So, I am asking the Community to share their experience and help me write it.
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3 Characteristics of Great Leadership
3 Characteristics of a Great Leader is No 5 in the Most Asked Leadership Questions Video Leadership Training Series. Please watch this video related to some of the concept in our Leadership Training. Do leave comments and feedback below. PLUS, if you have any Questions on Leadership, please do post them below. Enjoy!